Accra, Oct. 6, GNA – The Inclusive Family Alliance, an organisation that champions inclusion, especially for children with cerebral palsy and their families, on Sunday October 5, joined congregants at the Calvary Baptist church, Adabraka to educate them on cerebral palsy.
The cerebral palsy awareness and education campaign is part of activities to mark World Cerebral Palsy (CP) Day, which is celebrated globally on the 6th of October every year.
World CP Day is a movement for and by an estimated 50 million people living with cerebral palsy, their families and their supporters to celebrate, advocate and take action on cerebral palsy.
Cerebral Palsy is a neurological condition that affects a person’s ability to move and sometimes communicate, it is the most common life-long physical disability, and it’s cased by an injury to the developing brain.
Mrs Hannah Awadzi, Executive Director of the Inclusive Family Alliance, in her interaction with the congregations, educated them on the condition, stating that cerebral palsy is not a curse, neither was it caused by witchcraft.
She therefore advised the congregation to avoid stigmatising such persons in their community and rather embrace them.
“The Church should invite us more to do more education, create awareness and join us to advocate for inclusion for persons living with cerebral palsy in Ghana,” she said.
She also urged church members to volunteer as caregivers or take up care work to support families of persons with cerebral palsy.
Reverend Raynold Nunya Degadzor, Pastor in charge of the Adabraka Campus of the Calvary Baptist Church, led the congregation to pray for families of persons with cerebral palsy.
He said the church would create more avenues for CP education and do their best to support families of persons with cerebral palsy in Ghana.
GNA
Edited by Lydia Kukua Asamoah